Richard Reynolds (Non-Voting Chair)
He’s recently retired as the crime fiction specialist at Heffers, Cambridge, after nearly forty-one years. He remains involved supporting publishers, crime writers and their work. He is Series Consultant for Galileo Publishers GA list. He has collaborated with Jon Gifford at the Oleander Press, setting up a website (Cambridge Crime: Specialists in Murder) supplying recommendations, a blog (theoldmaninthecorner) and an imprint (Oreon), reissuing Golden Age Detective fiction (https://www.oleanderpress.com/golden-age-crime.html).

Lyn Brown
Lyn has been the MP for West Ham since 2005, growing up in the area she now represents. A previous Gold Dagger judge, she remains an avid reader and co-ordinates a book club for Labour Women MPs. Lyn now holds a Shadow Ministerial post in Labour’s Shadow Treasury Team.

Amanda Cassidy

Amanda Cassidy is a freelance journalist, commissioning editor and former Sky News reporter represented by Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency in London. Shortlisted for the Irish Journalist of the Year Awards, and more recently the Headline Media writing awards, she’s a frequent contributor to national radio, print and television and holds a BA in European Studies from Trinity College Dublin.  Breaking, Amanda’s debut crime thriller, was described by bestselling author Liz Nugent as “compelling, intriguing and thoroughly engaging.” Her second novel, The Returned is out in August. Amanda lives in Dublin with her husband and three young children.

Dan Coxon

Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer. He has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards and the British Fantasy Awards (six times), with Writing the Uncanny (co-edited with Richard V. Hirst) winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction 2022. The second book in the Writing series, Writing the Future, was published in September 2023, and the third, Writing the Mystery, is forthcoming in 2024.

Raymond Dickey

A recently retired chemical engineer whose hobbies include martial arts, playing and listening to live music, walking, trying to learn languages, and, of course, reading.  Originally from the USA he has resided in the UK for the past 20 years. His wife, Kathy, writes mostly urban fantasy novels.

Jess Faraday
Jess Faraday is the author of the award-winning Ira Adler historical mysteries, the standalone steampunk adventure The Left Hand of Justice and a number of historical adventures in short story and novella form. She has edited several award-winning short story collections, and has served as a judge for the Rainbow Awards for many years.

Pippa Macallister
Pippa was introduced to crime fiction by a Francis Durbridge-loving grandmother and a Christie-loving primary schoolteacher. Pippa has looked after the admin for a crime fiction book group for the last 20 years or so and is the author of Cambridge – Myriads of Misdeeds.

Ngaire Mason-Wenn Wallace

Ngaire is an internationally published author with a background in Recruitment Consulting and Human Resources. She holds a BA in English and History from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and has also studied psychology and linguistics. Her keen interest in the human mind has informed her career in the corporate world, her writing, and her love of crime fiction.